Sentence examples for deplaned from inspiring English sources

— "Bruce"   From the midnight sprint to Teterboro to the moment I deplaned at my extradition-proof final destination, the Exec-U-Scapes team honored their strict no-teasing/no-wisecracks/no-blackmail policy.

He deplaned, walked to the perimeter of the airport, and boarded a bus that drove on the wrong side.

As the passengers deplaned in Chicago and we passed the crew, the pilot answered his cellphone.

We landed in Dallas, deplaned and walked into the concourse.

"Passengers were in no danger, as this event had happened at least 15 minutes after they deplaned," Chief Donahue said.

In 1975 in rainy Salzburg the notoriously clumsy Gerald Ford slipped on the wet bottom step as he deplaned and tumbled on to the tarmac, forcing his wife to shield him with an umbrella as an official tugged him upright.

Indeed, for all we know, "deplaning" back then meant not that the passengers left the plane but that the plane simply ceased to be one:A hint of the source comes from the discovery that, according to Merriam-Webster again, "detrain" dates back even further, to 1881.

It was one and a half hours and they would be back in 90 minutes, so it didn't make sense to deplane the passengers at that time.

What could possibly be wrong with "leave the aircraft", "disembark", or just "get off"?But most galling is that the media have adopted the word whole-heartedly, both as a transitive (airlines deplaning passengers) and an intransitive verb (passengers deplaning).

In the clearest sign that something is wrong, it can be transitive for the passengers too: you don't "deplane from" a plane, you just deplane the plane, as if you were intending to take it to pieces with a screwdriver.Which may well be just what you want to do, after spending several hours stuck in one.

The world's busiest airports, as measured by the total number of passengers enplaning and deplaning, are listed in the table.